Word Meanings - INVOLUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication;

Additional info about word: INVOLUTION

The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement. All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions. Glanvill. 3. That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope. Sir T. Browne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INVOLUTION)

• Convolution
• Coil
• involution
• implication
• spiral
• twist
• contortion
• Jungle
• Thicket
• brake
• ravelling
• entanglement
• labyrinth
• wilderness
• Labyrinth
• Maze
• complexity
• bewilderment
• perplexity
• inexplicable
• difficulty
• Mesh
• Intricacy
• snare

Related words: (words related to INVOLUTION)

• CONTORTION
  A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.
• SNARE
  An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• SPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral. Spiral gear, or Spiral wheel , a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals. -- Spiral gearing,
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• BRAKE
  of Break. Tennyson.
• SPIRALITY
  The quality or states of being spiral.
• LABYRINTHICI
  An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
• LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
  Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• LABYRINTHIFORM
  Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
• BRAKEMAN
  A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
• LABYRINTHIAN
  Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
• INVOLUTION
  The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication;
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
• DIFFICULTY
  difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
• SNARER
  One who lays snares, or entraps.
• MUSCULOSPIRAL
  Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• CONCHO-SPIRAL
  A kind of spiral curve found in certain univalve shells. Agassiz.
• SUSPIRAL
  1. A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct. 2. A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
• CANEBRAKE
  A thicket of canes. Ellicott.